skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Arrowhead allowed their game to be sold in countries where you will not be able to play.

This is the thing that I'm not sure of and that I think the question of whether to blame Arrowhead depends on. Who authorized selling it in non PSN countries in the first place? Is that Arrowhead's responsibility as a studio, or Sony's responsibility as a publisher?

Considering you can find locations to buy the physical game on Playstation's official website, even in unsupported countries, I'm leaning towards the latter

(https://www.playstation.com/en-ph/games/helldivers-2/)
Anything to not have to use cargo and crates.io.
Apple used to sell stuff that had “curated UIs”: few control, few functions, and excellent UX. I remember the cleanliness of the iPod vs the overfeatured and complicated competitors.
Who is that predator? I wish to hire them desperately. We had an agreement that the federation would stick to just the dead material but there are obviously some free thinking factions at work. Now I'm growing lettuce as just the distraction crop for them (and the slugs) to protect the other youngling starts and strawberries.
Do they care about the brand damage or the need to factor it into their product with hardware/software?

I think the latter is significantly more likely.
Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)
A (lengthy!) tutorial on how to write your own JS-based autopilot code to fly planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a web page to both visualize the flight and control the AP.

Note that this is a complete do-over of a previous page that used a combination of Python and JavaScript, and only covered basic autopilot functionality. This rewrite threw all of that out, and goes much, much further:

you just want to have the plane take off without having to do anything? Check, this tutorial covers auto-takeoff.

Flying with waypoint-based navigation, not by "programming airports and radio beacons one letter at a time with a jog-dial" but by just placing markers on a map and dragging those around as you please, mid-flight, Google Maps style? Check. After all, why would we not, putting a map on a webpage is super easy (barely an inconvenience).

In fact, let's throw in flight plan saving and loading, so others can fly the same route!

And maybe you want the plane to fly a fixed distance above the ground, instead of at a fixed altitude... well: check. You'll learn about terrain-follow using free Digital Elevation Model datasets for planet Earth.

And of course the big one, for the ultimate "click button, JS flies the plane start to finish" experience: ever wished the in-game autopilot could just land the plane for you? Well, it's a video game, and we know programming, so: why not? We're also implementing auto-landing and it's going to be amazing.

If you play MSFS, and you're a developer/programmer, and you've always thought how cool it would be if you could just do some scripting for it... you can, there's a lot of cool stuff you can do!

And of course if you don't want to follow along and just want to have everything set up and ready to fly your plane, just clone https://github.com/Pomax/are-we-flying and have fun.
Another factor I’ve noticed is vegetarians and vegans. Always look much older.
> Side note 2: Germany now has a large scale "Mehrweg- und Pfandsystem" for bottles.

This was already standard procedure in East Germany though, pretty much everything from glass bottles (via a "Pfandsystem" much the same as today's minus the deposit machines) to paper to scrap metal was recycled. We even had regular 'waste paper collections' at school which were organized like a competition. This had little to do with environmentalism but instead to get more independent from resource imports.

(as you mentioned, the environment was much worse off in East Germany than it is today, especially around industrial locations)
Sure, but if I wanted to be on the same side of the mountain I started on, there's an easier way to do it :P
> Absolutely pathetic

It seems to be a class-based social more. Among the rich and upper-middle class, approaching someone to introduce yourself isn't unfavourable. If anything, it's seen as a right and children are taught to do it. Among the lower classes it's seen as uncouthe.

You see it strikingly at e.g. birthday parties and galas. (Particularly in the U.K., Western and Southern Europe. Though there, unfortunately, such cold introductions usually aren't enough to cross the barrier. Hence my qualification for this only working in American cities. Also Nordic countries. It even extends to the design of social spaces, with private clubs and even elite airline lounges having chairs face each other while tables at fast food places are more isolated.)
Right up until the Home Assistant UI turns into a lagfest, the installation dies, and you can't debug why because Docker. At least that's what happened to me. And no, it wasn't RPi SD power issues. This happened on an otherwise-stable amd64 server.

The Home Assistant authors' hostility towards simple native distributions is now a show stopper for me. Long term reliability is more important than quick initial setup.
Missing from the blog. The power reading of the Tosmota device should be calibrated:
https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Power-Monitoring-Calibration/
Mist with olive oil and have them roll around in cocoa powder. Deelish, Like an inside out M&M!
Thanks, I will do!

I'm a big fan of the UK government's commitments to open standards and their whole IT philosophy in general.

That said local councils usually give me quite the opposite feeling. I will definitely look into your suggestion in the hope of seeing some trickle-down!
I moved the hosting of my personal site from GoDaddy to Mythic Beasts recently, and have been happy with the move. A friend purchased his site through NameCheap, curious what people think of them.

What are some alternatives to GoDaddy that folks prefer here?
Some of the comments were from 2-3 hours ago. I think someone bumped the story's time by resubmitting.
Sorry for not being clear — I meant 43 ex-Gitpodders joined our alumni group. That includes all layoffs to date, people who left or was fired.
Okiluoto Island: Home to 50km of High-Level Nuclear Waste Tunnels
Sorry if I came off as hostile. However, I don’t believe that you haven’t found anyone useless at large corporations that was able to survive layoffs, and I sincerely do not believe you were talking in good faith.
Alternative solution: put the e back in that the apostrophe is standing in place of. St Maryes Place
There does exist a marketplace for documentation to be cryptographically encoded. E.G. Spec sheets. You must have a verified PGP key to open this document, that is generated for a company after they sign a NDA.
As a long-time MUI user myself, I had the same "revelation" about Tailwind recently. Before MUI, I worked at a couple startups where we came up with our CSS franken-framework with homegrown utility classes.

It's just easier to do fast proto-typing with various Tailwind classes, and then refactor common sets of HTML tags with tailwind classes, they become reusable React (or Svelte) components.
> If you replace "the algorithm" with "our mutual friends pricing advice", it's the same old blatant price fixing clearly prohibited.

The difference between this comparison and what's actually happening is that the friend doesn't actually price decisions for "today" with information they learned from other competitors that also asked them for price decisions "today".

Instead, it's like a friend giving you a preset excel spreadsheet where you plug in your competitors' price history and your price history and it spits out a number. Is it really illegal for everyone to use the same spreadsheet with the same math in it?

Another child comment of my original top level comment suggests the collusion was that, to use the algorithm at all, a rental property had to accept its output price at least 85% of the time.
I’m with you. I’m moving all my domains to PorkBun. Maybe check that out?
I'll take the word of the health professional, thanks
They let go 6~ people last week, not officially called a layoff though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
Yes, data structures with cyclic references are a bit harder to write in Rust than in C or C++. But it’s not impossible. And IMO, you write those so rarely that it really doesn’t matter.
No, that's not what I mean.

What I mean is that the performant libraries of the ML/AI python ecosystem are all written in C or another high-speed compiled language. The speed of the underlying execution is not meaningfully affected by the speed of the Python interpreter. If CPython 3.12 came out with a huge performance regression and ran 50% slower than 3.11, these ML programs would run at almost exactly the same speed they do today.
This would be quite expensive to apply to whole-disk encryption, as you'd need 8x the size of the data that you want to store. Whether this is worth it or not depends on the threat model you're facing, of course.
One single fungus caused Ireland to lose half its population in 1848 and caused revolutions to spread all across Europe that same year.

Now multiply that by the thousands of different fungi found in a typical garden.
If we are talking about paper reviews, what I am looking for in a paper as a reviewer is neither simplicity nor complexity. I am not even looking for "novelty". What I am looking for is a thorough and thought-provoking empirical analysis of a problem.

I see plenty of submissions where 1) authors propose a system that is clearly a monstrosity Frankenstein patched together from a dozen of existing ideas - clearly a successful attempt at getting "bold numbers" using as many new shiny toys they could get their hands on without analyzing failure modes of either part in depth; 2) a simple modification of an existing method that accedentally improves the performance of the system but still lacks proper empirical or therotical justification of why this modification helps.

While the second type of papers has at least some marginal value to the community or the reader, I still find such papers mostly useless. What brings value to the reader is a phd student who stared at the problem long enough to find quantitative and verifiable confirmations to his intuitions about the problem that lead to reproducible observations with predictive power. Ie "we experimentally verififed that indeed X affects Y exactly though the mechanism Z described in this paper in all cases, this helped us to improve metric A by B%, agreeing with Z". Not "we did X, and we saw A increase by B%", regardless of the complexity of A.

Not all reviewers agree with me, sadly.
A Breakthrough Discovery in Pokémon [video]
I enjoyed this exploration of Pokémon Gold/Silver and how its fictional settings and archaeological ludic features are a kind of metaphorical synecdoche, an in-universe allegorical microcosm standing in relation to the macrocosm of Japan proper, with the mysterious and mystical elements of the game world actually being stand-ins for real-life historical art and artifacts, deepening my appreciation of the wonder of both life and art based upon it.

A real triumph of the format at just under 30 minutes runtime. No prior knowledge of the Pokémon franchise or Japanese history is necessary.

As a fan of the series who only played the original Red/Blue games and Pokémon Go, this was a great Sunday watch and deepened my appreciation of the series and of the true accomplishments of the multiple incarnations of the franchise, and helped me appreciate how Pokémon itself is a form of art imitating life, leading to a reflexive appreciation of both, and how Pokémon Go especially and its settings are kind of genius in the style of Alice in Wonderland.
I never used Traefik and have no opinion on it one way or the other as such. But if this is the response to some criticism of the documentation – which you can agree or disagree with, then you've done more to turn me of from Traefik than anything anyone here can write.
I recommend reading that again, or better yet, ask your dentist to explain why you are wrong
First steps toward a whole-body map of molecular responses to exercise
nope. tech is so fast moving if you're not at least experimenting with your own code then you're not going to be a good fit. we tend to also hire engineers who have contributed to open source.
Could you expand on how prometheus or grafana helps you automate? I didn’t know either enabled that.
> Now we live in a digital world where because we can, we are now being told to record. How would this be any different than the courts demanding that all conversations be recorded via audio recording when not using a chat application.

You say this as if to illicite some sort of shock or disapproval from the reader but for me its the opposite.

Why shouldnt the permanent storage of all communications between companies the size of Google be mandated by law?

From my perspective this seems to be a net benefit for society.
Hmm... However, language is itself also a tool. There are cases where adapting language to another tool is easier than the other way around.
About a year ago I bought some parts to build a Linux PC for testing LLMs with llama.cpp. I paid less than $200 for: a B550MH motherboard, AMD Ryzen 3 4100, 16GB DDR4, 256GB NVMe SSD. I already had an old PC case with a 350W PSU and a 256MB video card because the PC wouldn’t boot without one.

I looked today on Newegg and similar PC components would cost $220-230.

From a performance perspective, I get about 9 tokens/s from mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2.Q4_K_M.gguf with a 1024 context size. This is with overclocked RAM which added 15-20% more speed.

The Mac Mini is probably faster than this. However the custom built PC route gives you the option to add more RAM later on to try bigger models. It also lets you add a decent GPU. Something like a used 3060, as one of comments says.
Jeff Bezos emails Amazon exec
The Hot Poop on the Cinderella Incinerating Toilet
Do you always stop reading when you disagree?
I live next to a train station in Scotland. To travel to a big city near me 32 miles away and back would cost me £11.30

This would cost £1.92 in my EV (or £7.68 in my old diesel).

It would also cost me £1.92 for my whole family in the same car, whereas the train fair would multiply.

There’s a lot more to it than that of course but public transport is expensive.
Relatively few engineers of any kind (outside of Civil Engineering)--much less other STEM--have PE licenses in the US. They're mostly required if you're going to be signing off on things for regulators etc. You could do it but now you require a 4+ year degree, exams, and some years of working under a certified engineer.
Not everything that can be represented with s-expressions is a lisp. For example:

(html
(body
(h1 "Hello, World!")))

This does not mean that HTML is a lisp.
> Residents living next to Google's £790million data centre claim it is making them ill, ruining their lives

I finished reading the article. Is there any studies that explain this claim? that to live next to a data center causes illness? at another line the article explains

> But locals say they are moving as a result and have complained construction noise is keeping them awake and that the project is ruining once pleasant views.

is the illness specific then to data centers or the usual NIMBY disturbances as a result of any large scale construction project?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium

Mycelium is very important to agriculture. Every plant has different threats, but I'll use apple trees because I have those. Phytophthora rot is referred to as a fungus but actually is not. Apple scab can be mitigated with a biological control (read: natural predator) and apple rust is solved by proper spacing away from conifers (don't plant an apple orchard within 4-5 miles of a juniper forest) or simply removing galls from affected cedars. Unlike Phytophthora, both of those are a certain kind of fungus which has a different relationship with its host than mycelium does.

Somewhat non-sequitur, we also grow mushrooms. Throwing spent mushroom cakes into my worm bin is an actual super power in composting. It breaks large things down that the worms won't go after so that they're small enough that the worms do go after them.
You seem to be taking my response to a question about what is wrong with using a “Canon” [sic] to swat a mosquito as if it was an argument about what that was a (typoed) metaphor for rather than a humorous observation about what was literally described.
IIRC, it was a 53-pass compiler.
ML and AI Consulting-as-a-Service
I think the question is how are you meeting the hiring manager?

If you submit a resume to a recruiter (or worse, online job posting) and get to the hiring manager you've absolutely gone through a bunch of formal screening steps. However if, as I believe GP is describing, you're able to connect with them through a side channel (such as a referral) you usually haven't gone through the formal screening so much as you've skipped it entirely. That obviously will dramatically increase your odds of success but it's not the same as getting through the resume scan and HR filter
That's not unique to Microsoft. It's a problem of the economic system. The only thing that's valued is how much money can be extracted by executives and shareholders.

Good security, quality products, and employee well being don't matter as long as the stock goes up. Experience has shown that having poor security practices doesn't affect companies' stock price negatively so why would they spend money to have better security? Is the US government going to stop using Microsoft 365? Nope. Is there an alternative where security is actually valued? Nope.

The solution is not a single executive at a single company sending out a memo full of platitudes but a change to the economic system such that product quality is valued over how much value can be extracted and sent to parasitic shareholders.
Somehow, I find myself using Caddy everywhere I would use Træfik in the past.
Grafana is a hell of a lot nicer & controllable than HA

HA is great, but it's not the answer to everything
Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion [pdf]
Or that maybe there are actually some politics involved behind the scenes because AM radio is a big distribution channel for Sean Hannity given it's the 4th most popular talk radio with 10 of the top 20 talk radio shows being conservative talk radio. I would be shocked if they didn't weigh in if for nothing other than financial interest.
Curious how Bill Gates is still main cced? Does he still play a significant role in the control of Microsoft?
That’s exactly the situation I like Caddy in also.
Consider a "burner" email alias for such situations. Fastmail makes creating them easy enough.
I find this very interesting. As a hiring manager, don't you first weed out the applicants that don't meet the job requirements/skillsets? And after that, are there other factors you are evaluating for before you assess what motivates them?

I guess what I'm asking is, in the hiring process, when exactly do you assess for this? And at times, wouldn't money be the most important motivation because maybe the person was recently laid off, or is in massive debt, etc.?
Good to know there are hiring managers out there who think like this. Thanks for the reply.

May I ask what industry you work in?
It’s kinda funny reading this as an owner of a Tesla. People who don’t have them like yourself keep lamenting touchscreens online, whereas Tesla owners explicitly stay with the brand because of how excellent it is compared to other vehicles, touchscreen or not.

Technology Connections just posted a video where he explains how he had to hold his car’s ugly 90s era stalk for 4 seconds to change his wipers. Had to read a manual to discover that. This kind of crap is very standard in cars with disjoint components cobbled together.

Meanwhile I get my live video sentry alerts on my phone, my car drives me to work, my gear selection is typically putting on a seatbelt and pressing the brake pedal as the car knows the right direction, everything important is contextually accessible via the wheels on the steering wheel instead of having 50 buttons for everything, and so on.

It is simple and powerful. The problem with those luxury vehicles you mention is just awful execution.
I believe you're referring to:

> Store-based systems, however, are static in nature, with all dependencies being resolved at build time.

I think the author is saying that the shared libraries (.so) are available at build time on store-based systems and never change. Thus, the dynamic linker can speed up symbol resolution by doing the symbol resolution at build time and sticking the result in output binary. This is distinct from static linking which sticks the entire library (.a) into the output binary.
There's also a follow-up blog post "ESP32-S3 SIMD Minimal Example" [0].

0: https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2024/01/esp32-s3-simd-m...
This gives me an excuse to revisit smithy. Curious if editor support is still poor in VSCode. Last time I cracked it open, I found that (1) there was no AST introspection and (2) existing language support tooling was lacking modern features (click to definition, autocomplete of ambient/imported smithy types). (2) made me attempt to write a language server and I stopped when I realized there was no easy way to hook into the parser.
I think that’s totally fine. Might actually be the future direction. But yea would’ve been nice to have wifi/bt integrated.

Eg if you want 5ghz then use c5, or if you want some wifi-6 so c6, etc.

Also here’s a talk by them on how to use esp as a wifi coprocessor https://youtu.be/g14aEjnjRLw?si=TgkEyJJ2_L_Shuom

There’s also adafruit airlift https://www.adafruit.com/product/4201
I grow mushrooms as a hobby and in that context my number one enemy is trichoderma, the green mold. This is because trichoderma is parasitic on other fungi, i.e. it doesn't colonize the substrates that I grow my fungi on, it directly colonizes (eats) the fungal threads (mycelium) thereby killing it off before it has a chance to "fruit" (produce mushrooms).

This is how I initially learned that trichoderma is used as a natural "fungicide". In your specific case it might be interesting to investigate this in more detail, e.g. you can "inoculate" your soil with copious amounts of trichoderma to fight off other fungi.

For more details here's a pointer to a rabbit hole: https://www.google.com/search?q=trichoderma+fungicide

Sorry if you know all of this already, I was hoping it might help :-).
But their customers would quickly spot that. In fact, other companies now get close to / match apple's packaging attention to detail, but the rest of the customer experience itself rarely matches that first impression.

So the box matters; and the product; and the customer service. Focussing on just the product is missing the big picture.
Well:

This webserver in Maclisp http://up.dfupdate.se/httpd%20html

gave birth to this: http://up.dfupdate.se/ulml.html
Please use the correct terminology: censorship
Apologies, I was thinking Roman not Rubin.
I think you mistakenly replied to my comment instead of one that made some sort of grouping?

Alternatively, you're assuming that because there is some possible technique that can't be reversed, it's no longer useful to remove the effects of techniques that _can_ be reversed?
If someone else wants to try this, I strongly recommend against using WiFi for the plugs, instead use Z-Wave or Zigbee.

Wifi is just not meant for this use case, it will be unhappy if you start adding a lot of devices, and it will slow down your main use of WiFi for your phone.
True, It is the Zionists. I can see the vast majority of the faith are against this inhuman occupation and genocide. Especially those who have first hand experience of the holocaust. At any point opposing the genocidal regime should not equate to hating on the people. The regime wants it and thrives on it.